News and announcements

Everyone should take some time, now and then, to go over to Sami Khan's DrupalShowcase.com and behold all of the amazing websites that are being built with this software called Drupal.

A new custom field for use with Flexinode content types.

The encrypted field provides two levels of security for text-based data being stored on your website.

Individual encrypted fields can have their view access restricted to user role permissions assigned to them.

All data that is stored in the fields is encrypted in the database and decrypted upon viewing or editing the flexinode content.

Users without the correct view access for a certain field in the flexinode can continue to edit the rest of the node without losing the protected data.

Hi, my name is Shawn Kwon from Korea.

I'd like to request help and support from drupal lovers worldwide.
I've been managing KLDP, one of Korea's biggest/oldest Free and Open Software community focusing on documentation, project hosting, forum...etc since 1996. As the site grows we had to adopt different software platform for different services but time for migration has finally come and we chose drupal for our next service platform.

The issue is how we can migrate all the data and especially the phpbb conversion is the most important/hardest part of this job. So we did fundraising for this migration job and assigned 400000 Won(about $400) on bounty for GPL'd phpbb->drupal converter.

Here are the specification for the converter.

• This converter should be licensed under GPL
• phpbb: phpbb 2.0.18 + attachment mod / drupal: 4.6.5
• phpbb should be converted to drupal forum functionality
• Using/Adding drupal module is okay (when necessary) but modifying the drupal 4.6.5 core is not welcomed.
• The phpbb database is UTF-8 so the converter does not have to care for the encoding. (Changing encoding is quite easy and straightforward. So I set this to ease the job of converter)
• The attached files in the starting thread and attached files at the comments should be preserved (drupal does not support attaching file in comment. Using/developing mod for adding file attachment support to comment is welcomed / encouraged)

We had a great Meetup last week. The Notes can be found on this Wiki http://www.civicactions.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Drupal_Developer/Business_Me....
They highlight a range of critical issues that arose from the community that we hope will be addressed at DrupalCon. About 1/3 of the folks a the Meetup will be there in Vancouver.